vSphere Contracts in the Thames Valley

VMware vSphere
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring vSphere skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited vSphere over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 136 133
Rank change year-on-year +44 -3 -1
Contract jobs citing vSphere 10 9 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.66% 0.34% 0.61%
As % of the System Software category 5.03% 2.60% 5.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 15
10th Percentile £468 £323 £410
25th Percentile £513 £325 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £431 £455
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -5.23% -1.09%
75th Percentile £588 £500 £458
90th Percentile £590 £650 £542
South East median daily rate £575 £475 £425
% change year-on-year +21.05% +11.76% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £65.25
Median hourly rate - - £70.50
75th Percentile - - £75.75
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - - £54.50
% change year-on-year - - -35.88%

All System Software Skills
Thames Valley

vSphere falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 199 346 355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.17% 12.88% 12.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 246 265
10th Percentile £250 £175 £230
25th Percentile £363 £310 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £481
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% +9.25% +6.20%
75th Percentile £638 £608 £575
90th Percentile £700 £650 £675
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 13 16
10th Percentile - £16.25 £18.86
25th Percentile - £46.25 £48.18
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +270.37%
75th Percentile - £65.00 £71.25
90th Percentile - - £78.56
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £50.75 £54.03
% change year-on-year +13.30% -6.07% +170.15%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing vSphere as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for vSphere in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing vSphere in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for vSphere in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing vSphere in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for vSphere in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing vSphere in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for vSphere in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing vSphere within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +35 9 £539 +54.00% 9
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 4
vSphere
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (50.00%) IIS
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) NetScaler
2 5 (50.00%) DNS
2 5 (50.00%) SMTP
3 3 (30.00%) Firewall
3 3 (30.00%) VSAN
4 1 (10.00%) Internet
4 1 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (10.00%) IP Telephony
4 1 (10.00%) LAN
4 1 (10.00%) MPLS
4 1 (10.00%) NAS
4 1 (10.00%) SAN
4 1 (10.00%) SD-WAN
4 1 (10.00%) Skype
4 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (10.00%) Unified Communications
4 1 (10.00%) WAN
4 1 (10.00%) Wireless
General
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) IT Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) IT Support
2 1 (10.00%) IT Support Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Clustering
1 5 (50.00%) PKI
2 2 (20.00%) Replication
3 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Windows
1 6 (60.00%) Windows Server
2 5 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (10.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (10.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (10.00%) Inventory Management
3 1 (10.00%) ITIL
3 1 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (10.00%) Migration
3 1 (10.00%) Threat Management
3 1 (10.00%) Ticket Management
3 1 (10.00%) User Experience
3 1 (10.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (50.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (10.00%) A+ Certification
4 1 (10.00%) Degree
4 1 (10.00%) MCP
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (10.00%) VCAP
4 1 (10.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (60.00%) XenApp
2 5 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (50.00%) XenDesktop
3 3 (30.00%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (30.00%) VMware NSX
4 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Clustering
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (50.00%) WSUS
2 3 (30.00%) vCenter Server
3 1 (10.00%) PowerCLI
3 1 (10.00%) SCCM
3 1 (10.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) VMware
2 6 (60.00%) Citrix
2 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (50.00%) Dell
3 5 (50.00%) HP
4 1 (10.00%) Cisco
4 1 (10.00%) F5
4 1 (10.00%) NetApp
4 1 (10.00%) Veeam
4 1 (10.00%) Zerto